Kobo Porn Scandal: The End of Self-Publishing?

Kobo Porn Scandal: The End of Self-Publishing?

That provocative headline was seen in today’s Telegraph, and while the conclusion it draws is a bit of a reach, it does bring to light one important thing: while the self-published community most certainly will, as Kobo’s chief executive Mike Serbinis says, “only…get stronger as a result of this incident”, right now indie authors are at the mercy of the websites that sell their books. Or, in this case, that don’t.